LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — While thousands of dollars change hands above ground on the Las Vegas Strip, hundreds of people are living in complete darkness just feet below, beneath some of the city’s biggest casinos.

FOX5’s Victoria Saha joined the Shine a Light organization to explore the tunnels and discovered why getting people out is much harder than getting them help.

Life underground

On a weekend morning, Shine a Light volunteers and organizers spread across the valley. They announce themselves before stepping into a place many call home.

The team met a man named Dave, who has been living in the Las Vegas tunnels for eight years. When asked what brought him to the tunnels, Dave said it was being “out of sight, out of mind.”

Dave’s camp holds what makes this home — a bed, a small ligh

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